CobraCraig wrote:
We’ve been bullied but we are missing a large proportion of our pack and Catalans have played well.
A defeat like this however is unacceptable though and what it points out again to me like it has a few times this season is we are maybe flat track bullies, when we physically get on top and dominate the ruck and territory we seem to revel (Saints, Warrington and most games we have won) when a team gets on a roll against us we really seem to struggle to stem the bleed and turn the tables.
Tough few weeks coming up and we could find ourselves out of the cup and a way off a home play off final spot. IL needs to get the cheque book out and get Dupree in ASAP.
When a team stands up to our ‘bullies’ like Smithies we completely lose the plot. We had it with Partington. It’s a pattern that’s gone on for years and part of the club’s recruitment going all the way down to how we’ve profiled and signed young players. We’ve a reserve team filled with players who in the main have no chance of a career in our first team. IL is dormant and probably counting his days down to retirement. I’d love nothing more than some serious surgery done to this squad but I’ve been waiting for that since the embarrassment of us against the Roosters when it comes to signing a dominant pack.
